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That was never my intention. I was just surprised by your thinking around it. Lets leave it at that

These guys aren’t playing parlour games like charades on Christmas night. They’re playing cricket, a game with a hard ball, playing for their country. And we learnt on the last day of the Sydney test it is also a game of attrition. It’s a competitive sport and all the ancillary going ons, which includes crowd involvement, are an important part of the game. Bumrah was trying to unsettle Uzzy with gamesmanship, Konstas was his only teammate on the field and he had a team responsibility to get involved. He flew the colours and earnt the respect of his team mates I would say. Or perhaps you would have preferred Konstas wait until he has played enough test cricket to get to a level where it would be considered appropriate he be involved in the verbals that go on out on the ground and in this instance say sorry Mr Bumrah, Ill promise Ill bat at the pace you would like me to.

He's played 2 tests, one in which he set the victory up. You don't think you have gone too early? He has been picked at the elite level. If he backed down to the gamesmanship I could perhaps, at a stretch, understand your thinking. He however mixed it with Kholi and Bummrah. Test cricket is based around the Ian Chappell way rather than the Neddy Flanders leftorium business model.

Which part of the question is irrelevant. Konstas was bullied. He responded in kind. Good for him. Hookes responded to Tony Greig when he sent him off during the centenary test. I suppose he was out of line as well.

Just out of curiosity, how many tests will Konstas need to play when he will be deemed appropriate to participate in on field gamesmanship.

I had that as well. I'm pretty sure Tony Charlton was the interviewer.

Merry Christmas all. Its a wonderful site.

That works, if JVR was to slide to the 5th round. Edit, I see Old55 explained this.

If we matched the Gold Coast bid on Andrew, that would have likely came at pick 5, we would have had nothing left to pay for JVR. I don't think we got hurt with that rule change, unless you think Mac Andrew has way more upside than JVR.

Yeah Im thinking if it was the other way around, Hawthorn 4th and Dockers 9th our games would be in Perth and Melbourne and both Hawthorn games would be in Melbourne.

So if the Dees finish 3rd and are in the same pool as Fremantle, (who finished 4th) and Hawthorn do we get the option of selecting our home game and our away game?

This cannot be compared to the wild card system the NFL apply. To earn a wild card entry teams need to have strong win/loss ratio over the season and miss the play offs because they were part of a highly competitive Division. This is just expanding the finals series and rewarding a team that finishes in the bottom half of the ladder with an opportunity to play finals. 8/18 is plenty. 10/18 does not make sense I think.

I cant think of an A grader he traded out during his time at Sydney, except for Barry Hall which was a Kirk led revolt regarding his on field behaviour. Happy to be corrected.

He said that in 2014. There was no Oliver, Petracca, Gawn, May, Lever or Kozzie going around then.

Next weeks team Brown - Not going in. Billings - Not going in